Discussion on Temperature Control Method of Cooling Water Pipe for Mass Concrete Construction

Abstract

For studying the influence of cooling pipes on the mass concrete construction, the dam is taken an example to build the ANSYS finite element model. The model simulates dam concrete construction based on two projects, one without cooling pipes and the other with cooling water pipes provided. The data comparison and analyzing will be in three aspects: temperature, stress and displacement. The result shows that the cooling pipes not only can indeed reduce the concrete temperature in a short time, making the concrete reach the steady temperature more quickly, but also help to alleviate the concrete temperature stress. However, the reductions of temperature do not make a great influence on the displacement during the construction process.